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Sharpe's Starling - BirdForum Opus

Revision as of 14:22, 7 March 2011 by Wintibird (talk | contribs)
Pholia sharpii
Photo by JWN Andrewes
Aberdares Country Club, Kenya, June 2006

Identification

  • Blue back
  • White throat and upper breast
  • Yellow iris

Distribution

Africa south of the Sahara
Western Africa': found only in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Eastern Africa: southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and northern Tanzania

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1] which in the past was placed in genus Cinnyricinclus and which is also placed in Poeoptera.

Habitat

Lightly wooded gardens.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet includes small fruits.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Avibase
  3. BF Member observations

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